“The wheel on its own, while promising, is not very useful. Much like a doughnut, its most important feature is the hole in the center. If it wasn’t suitable for attaching a stable platform by combining it with an axle, […]
This might be the most ironic thing I’ve read in a while: “Several harm reduction advocates pointed out that drinking from borgs [“blackout rage gallons”] may actually mitigate the dangers of college drinking culture.” ~ learn more
“Despite enormous challenges facing many children around the globe, 2022 also brought good news. As we approach the end of the year, here are 10 areas of progress for children we can celebrate…” ~ learn more
I have been encountering this term more often recently. After a writer whose work I enjoy described herself in this way, I decided to look it up. ~ learn more
“Predicting gender from fundus [the part of the eyeball opposite the pupil] photos, previously inconceivable to those who spent their careers looking at retinas, also withstood external validation on an independent dataset of patients with different baseline demographics.” ~ learn more
Dairy farms are now partnering with companies to turn their cow manure into “renewable natural gas (RNG)”. Possibly the most dystopian line in this article: “Taken to an extreme, some worry dairy farms could end up turning into feces farms […]
This NYT reporter spent 24 non-consecutive hours in Facebook’s metaverse as research for this story. “My goal was to visit at every hour of the day and night, all 24 of them at least once, to learn the ebbs and […]
“Here is an unknown story that Warren Buffett told me when I was 21. It has to do with the first ever lawsuit he was involved in. It is not previously reported anywhere and inspired me to change the direction […]
A new book arrived this week for Petra with glow in the dark stickers included. We guessed at how it might work (magic?) and then she suggested we look up a video to teach us. ~ learn more